Since Franco Smith took the helm as head coach in 2022, the Glasgow Warriors have cultivated a distinctive reputation within the rugby world. Following a fiercely contested victory over Leinster, a match that saw them draw both ire and admiration, the team was controversially labeled “an awful shower of p****s”. This provocative description begs the question: are the Glasgow Warriors genuinely earning a reputation as the ‘bad boys’ of rugby, or is their intense, physical style simply misunderstood?
